Parsons School of Design
Organization
Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:
Robert Galster and Gilbert Ireland papers
Collection
Identifier: KA-0141-01
Summary
Robert Galster (1923-1991) and Gilbert Ireland (1924-2015) were designers and alumni of Parsons School of Design. Galster worked as a freelance illustrator and designer. Ireland designed window displays for Bergdorf Goodman for over forty years. The collection consists primarily of Galster's work and includes examples of his designs for books, album covers, and theater posters. Ireland's work is represented in photographs of the windows he designed. The collection also contains...
Dates:
1940s - circa 1983
Robert Kirkbride faculty records
Record Group
Identifier: PC-02-18-01
Abstract
The records in this collection, dating from 1985-2013, document Parsons School of Design faculty member Robert Kirkbride's involvement in faculty bodies and reviews of academic programs at The New School, primarily between 2004 and 2013, including his role as faculty advisor on the design and construction of the New School University Center at 65 Fifth Avenue. Also represented are materials documenting Kirkbride's participation in the curriculum review of various Parsons undergraduate...
Dates:
1986-2013; Majority of material found within 2005-2010
Unity and Diversity: Traveling Exhibition from Parsons School of Design posters
Record Group
Identifier: PC-02-14-01
Abstract
Mounted posters from the exhibition, “Unity and Diversity: a selection of posters from the Communication Design Department at Parsons School of Design," created by junior-year Communication Design students at Parsons. Thirty posters were chosen for the exhibition out of 180 entries submitted to a poster competition held by the Communications Design Department on the theme of “diversity, the underlying theme of the American Republic” in 1994.
Dates:
circa 1993-1994
Van Day Truex photograph albums and scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: KA-0160-01
Abstract
The collection consists of five photograph albums and three scrapbooks compiled by the designer, style arbiter, and Parsons School of Design administrator and president Van Day Truex (1904-1979). Truex's travels and social interactions are documented in the albums' captioned photographs, while scrapbooks chronicle his design and artistic successes. One scrapbook, annotated by Parsons faculty member Stanley Barrows, documents Truex's apartments and the home of his predecessor as president of...
Dates:
1910-1969; Majority of material found within 1926-1969